“If I had the time I would gin up a parody version of this that will give us the computational-modeling algorithmic counterfactual analysis of John J McCloy’s decision not to bomb the Auschwitz ovens in 1944.”

The Holocaust Museum is slammed for issuing a report absolving Obama’s White House for inaction in Syria.

He will be a man, or maybe still a boy. He will have a semiautomatic rifle—an AR-15, or something like it—and several high-capacity magazines filled with ammunition. The weapon will have been purchased legally, the background check no obstacle. He will walk into a school, or a concert, or an office building. And he will open fire into a crowd of innocents.

The Boston Globe dedicates its front page to the next mass shooting, which may happen sometime next week.

Immigration expands the economic pie but gives too meager a slice to ordinary people. The goal must be to retain, and in fact expand, immigration while ensuring that its benefits are distributed fairly.

Under a Visas Between Individuals Program, citizens would have the right to sponsor a migrant for economic purposes.

The sight of a Chinese actress in blackface, leading an African man dressed as a monkey around a stage as a way of celebrating a vital trading relationship on prime-time national TV, seems particularly ill-judged.

The most watched entertainment program on earth offers a mixed message about China’s investments in Africa.